The Last Chapter of Luke’s Gospel At daybreak on the first day of the week the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb; but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
Luke 24:1-3
One of the most familiar phrases in the Apostles’ Creed is “We believe in the resurrection of the body.”
“Resurrection” is not the same as resuscitation” (the act of reviving from apparent death or unconsciousness.) This human existence isn’t simply continued. It’s transformed. This human existence, which for some may not have been so good at all…which may have been plagued by mistakes or just bad breaks…this human existence will be transformed into something magnificent. The seed will blossom into what it was meant to be.
That’s why the crucifixion means so much. The body that was put in the tomb was a wreck – broken, beaten, bloody, ruined. But Jesus went through death to a new transformed, impossible-to-describe human life. On Friday he was a wreck, and on Sunday this broken body was glorious.
“We believe in the resurrection of the body.” That’s my body we’re talking about.
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